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Linus Torvalds
334fbe734e mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable 
Everything:
 
 Total patches:       368
 Reviews/patch:       1.56
 Reviewed rate:       74%
 
 Excluding DAMON:
 
 Total patches:       316
 Reviews/patch:       1.77
 Reviewed rate:       81%
 
 Excluding DAMON and zram:
 
 Total patches:       306
 Reviews/patch:       1.81
 Reviewed rate:       82%
 
 Excluding DAMON, zram and maple_tree:
 
 Total patches:       276
 Reviews/patch:       2.01
 Reviewed rate:       91%
 
 Significant patch series in this merge:
 
 - The 30 patch series "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy"
   from Liam Howlett is mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development
   but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement.
 
 - The 12 patch series "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map"
   from Kairui Song offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map.
   It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" from Pratyush
   Yadav adds file seal preservation to LUO's memfd code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible
   pages" from Jiayuan Chen adds additional userspace stats reportng to
   zswap.
 
 - The 4 patch series "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" from Mike
   Rapoport implements some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and
   zero_pfn.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop()
   implementation" from Zhongqiu Han provides an robustness improvement and
   some cleanups in the kmemleak code.
 
 - The 4 patch series "Improve khugepaged scan logic" from Vernon Yang
   "improves the khugepaged scan logic and reduces CPU consumption by
   prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently".
 
 - The 2 patch series "Make KHO Stateless" from Jason Miu simplifies
   Kexec Handover by "transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata
   tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that
   can be passed directly to the next kernel"
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan
   tracepoints" from Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt enhances vmscan's
   tracepointing.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper
   and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" from Catalin Marinas is a cleanup for the shadow
   stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation.
 
 - The 2 patch series "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc
   regions" from Pasha Tatashin fixes a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO
   restores a vmalloc area.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" from Tal
   Zussman provides several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct
   pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago.
 
 - The 17 patch series "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap
   optimization" from Kiryl Shutsemau simplifies the HugeTLB vmemmap
   optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship
   to the head page.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for
   core layer filters" from SeongJae Park improves two problematic
   behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters
   are used.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" from
   SeongJae Park improves DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
   min_nr_regions user-settable parameter.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" from Vlastimil
   Babka is a proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue.  Code
   simplifications and cleanups ennsed.
 
 - The 16 patch series "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" from
   David Hildenbrand implements "a bunch of cleanups around unmapping and
   zapping.  Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and
   renaming of zapping functions".
 
 - The 6 patch series "support batched checking of the young flag for
   MGLRU" from Baolin Wang supports batched checking of the young flag for
   MGLRU.  It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance
   benefits for arm64.
 
 - The 5 patch series "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups"
   from Johannes Weiner provides memcg cleanup and robustness improvements.
 
 - The 5 patch series "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" from
   Yuvraj Sakshith enhances page_reporting's free page reporting - it is
   presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory.
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm: vma flag tweaks" from Lorenzo Stoakes is
   cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a
   bitmap.
 
 - The 10 patch series "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity
   checks" from SeongJae Park adds some more developer-facing debug checks
   into DAMON core.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2
   min_region_sz requirement" from SeongJae Park adds an additional DAMON
   kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter
   handling.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals
   comparisons overflow-safe" from SeongJae Park fixes a hard-to-hit time
   overflow issue in DAMON core.
 
 - The 7 patch series "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation,
   test and documentation" from SeongJae Park is a "batch of misc/minor
   improvements and fixups" for DAMON.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of
   hugetlb.c" from David Hildenbrand fixes a possible issue with dax-device
   when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n.  Some code movement was required.
 
 - The 6 patch series "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky provides "a somewhat random mix of fixups,
   recompression cleanups and improvements" in the zram code.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota
   tuning algorithms" from SeongJae Park extend DAMOS quotas goal
   auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary
   start_stop_khugepaged()" from Breno Leitao fixes the khugpaged sysfs
   handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when
   starting/stopping khugepaged.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: improve map count checks" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   provides some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
   code.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring
   targets for modules" from SeongJae Park extends the use of DAMON core's
   addr_unit tunable.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites"
   from Nico Pache provides cleanups in the khugepaged and is a base for
   Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support.
 
 - The 15 patch series "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups"
   from David Hildenbrand implements code movement and cleanups in the
   memhotplug and sparsemem code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and
   cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" from David Hildenbrand rationalizes some
   memhotplug Kconfig support.
 
 - The 6 patch series "change young flag check functions to return bool"
   from Baolin Wang is "a cleanup patchset to change all young flag check
   functions to return bool".
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL
   dereference issues" from Josh Law and SeongJae Park fixes a few
   potential DAMON bugs.
 
 - The 25 patch series "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma
   code" from "converts a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t
   data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it".  Mainly in the
   vma code.
 
 - The 21 patch series "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes "expands the mmap_prepare functionality, which is
   intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the
   source of bugs and security issues for some time".  Cleanups,
   documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers.
 
 - The 13 patch series "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up zap_huge_pmd().  Additional
   cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are
   performed.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)

   Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
   stack usage and is an improvement.

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)

   Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
   some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.

 - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)

   File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code

 - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
   Chen)

   Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap

 - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)

   Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn

 - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
   Han)

   A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code

 - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)

   Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
   prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently

 - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)

   Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
   metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
   structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel

 - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
   Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)

   Enhance vmscan's tracepointing

 - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
   VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)

   Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
   a generic implementation

 - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area

 - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)

   Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
   which became folio_batch three years ago

 - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
   Shutsemau)

   Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
   pages encode their relationship to the head page

 - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
   filters" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
   efficient when core layer filters are used

 - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
   min_nr_regions user-settable parameter

 - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)

   The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
   simplifications and cleanups ensued

 - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)

   A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
   simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
   zapping functions

 - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)

   Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
   benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64

 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)

   memcg cleanup and robustness improvements

 - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)

   Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
   pages when reporting free memory.

 - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
   a bitmap

 - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
   (SeongJae Park)

   An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
   addr_unit parameter handling

 - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
   overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
   documentation" (SeongJae Park)

   A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON

 - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
   movement was required.

 - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
   improvements in the zram code

 - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
   algorithms that users can select

 - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)

   Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
   reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged

 - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
   code

 - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
   modules" (SeongJae Park)

   Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable

 - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)

   Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
   mTHP support

 - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)

   Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
   CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)

   Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support

 - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)

   Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
   Law and SeongJae Park)

   Fix a few potential DAMON bugs

 - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
   Stoakes)

   Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
   to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
   code.

 - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
   the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
   security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
   mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers

 - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
   vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
  mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
  mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
  mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
  mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
  mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
  mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
  mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
  mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
  mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
  mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
  uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
  drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
  mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
  ...
 2026-04-15 12:59:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5181afcdf9 A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including: 
- Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations, Chinese
   translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the beginnings of a
   Portuguese translation.
 
 - New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging
   Python gbb scripts, and more.
 
 - More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding self
   tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C tokenizer to
   replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and more.
 
 - Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put both
   into alphabetical order.
 
 ...and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general
 improvements.
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Merge tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including:

   - Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations,
     Chinese translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the
     beginnings of a Portuguese translation.

   - New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging
     Python gbb scripts, and more.

   - More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding
     self tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C
     tokenizer to replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and
     more.

   - Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put
     both into alphabetical order.

  ... and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general
  improvements"

* tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (162 commits)
  Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling
  doc: Add CPU Isolation documentation
  Documentation: Add managed interrupts
  Documentation: seq_file: drop 2.6 reference
  docs/zh_CN: update rust/index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: update rust/quick-start.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: update rust/coding-guidelines.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: sync process/2.Process.rst with English version
  docs/zh_CN: fix an inconsistent statement in dev-tools/testing-overview
  tracing: Documentation: Update histogram-design.rst for fn() handling
  docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/
  Docs: hid: intel-ish-hid: make long URL usable
  Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, and nobypass
  sched/doc: Update yield_task description in sched-design-CFS
  Documentation/rtla: Convert links to RST format
  docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation
  docs: fix typo in zoran driver documentation
  docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst
  Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation"
  ...
 2026-04-14 08:47:08 -07:00
David Hildenbrand (Arm)
9de209c183 kasan: docs: SLUB is the only remaining slab implementation 
We have only the SLUB implementation left in the kernel (referred to as
"slab").  Therefore, there is nothing special regarding KASAN modes when
it comes to the slab allocator anymore.

Drop the stale comment regarding differing SLUB vs. SLAB support.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260303120416.62580-1-david@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 2026-04-05 13:53:12 -07:00
Marco Elver
da735962d0 kfence: add kfence.fault parameter 
Add kfence.fault parameter to control the behavior when a KFENCE error is
detected (similar in spirit to kasan.fault=<mode>).

The supported modes for kfence.fault=<mode> are:

  - report: print the error report and continue (default).
  - oops: print the error report and oops.
  - panic: print the error report and panic.

In particular, the 'oops' mode offers a trade-off between no mitigation
on report and panicking outright (if panic_on_oops is not set).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225203639.3159463-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 2026-04-05 13:53:06 -07:00
Julia Lawall
1173763940 coccinelle: update Coccinelle URL 
The LIP6 URL no longer functions.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260310121431.362091-1-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
 2026-03-22 14:52:38 -06:00
Ryota Sakamoto
8b8f1d5e35 kunit: Add documentation of --list_suites 
Commit 60f3ada4174f ("kunit: Add --list_suites to show suites") introduced
the --list_suites option to kunit.py, but the update to the corresponding
run_wrapper documentation was omitted.

Add the missing description for --list_suites to keep the documentation in
sync with the tool's supported arguments.

Fixes: 60f3ada4174f ("kunit: Add --list_suites to show suites")
Signed-off-by: Ryota Sakamoto <sakamo.ryota@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
 2026-03-09 10:46:02 -06:00
LIU Haoyang
4fe1e1dcca docs/dev-tools: fix a broken URL in dev-tools/coccinelle.rst 
The original supplemental documentation for coccicheck is
https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck, which redirects to a not found page,
thus change it to https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck.html,
which adds a suffix to original URL to make it direct to the right page.

Signed-off-by: LIU Haoyang <tttturtleruss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260308100851.341-1-tttturtleruss@gmail.com>
 2026-03-09 10:10:24 -06:00
Bhaskar Chowdhury
b8c904a376 Doc: dev-tools: Added Gentoo in the Operating system list under Getting Coccinelle 
Adding Gentoo in the operating system list under "Getting Coccinelle".

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260222225536.19196-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
 2026-02-25 10:54:57 -07:00
Benjamin Philip
e3a22b5320 Documentation: Coccinelle: document debug log handling 
The current debug documentation does not mention that logs are printed
to stdout unless DEBUG_FILE is set. It also doesn't mention that
Coccinelle cannot overwrite debug files.

Document this behaviour in the examples and reference it in the
debugging section.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Philip <benjamin.philip495@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
 2026-02-21 17:22:45 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
136114e0ab mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 
Total patches:       107
 Reviews/patch:       1.07
 Reviewed rate:       67%
 
 - The 2 patch series "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim
   suballocator free bg" from Heming Zhao saves disk space by teaching
   ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space.
 
 - The 4 patch series "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one
   bugs" from Alejandro Colomar adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in
   various places.
 
 - The 2 patch series "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than
   PAGE_SIZE" from Pnina Feder makes the vmcore code future-safe, if
   VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size.
 
 - The 7 patch series "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing
   module buildid" from Petr Mladek cleans up kallsyms code related to
   module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing
   backtraces.
 
 - The 3 patch series "Address page fault in
   ima_restore_measurement_list()" from Harshit Mogalapalli fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel
   on x86.
 
 - The 6 patch series "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" from
   Mike Rapoport updates the kexec handover ABI documentation.
 
 - The 4 patch series "Align atomic storage" from Finn Thain adds the
   __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get
   natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2,
   openrisc and sh.
 
 - The 2 patch series "kho: clean up page initialization logic" from
   Pratyush Yadav simplifies the page initialization logic in
   kho_restore_page().
 
 - The 6 patch series "Unload linux/kernel.h" from Yury Norov moves
   several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places.
 
 - The 7 patch series "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" from Oleg
   Nesterov removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously
   unnecessary".
 
 - The 5 patch series "list private v2 & luo flb" from Pasha Tatashin
   adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
41f1a08645 Kbuild/Kconfig updates for 7.0 
Kbuild changes
 ==============
 
 * Drop '*_probe' pattern from modpost section check allowlist, which hid
   legitimate warnings (Johan Hovold)
 
 * Disable -Wtype-limits altogether, instead of enabling at W=2 (Vincent
   Mailhol)
 
 * Improve UAPI testing to skip testing headers that require a libc when
   CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK is not set, opening up testing of headers with no
   libc dependencies to more environments (Thomas Weißschuh)
 
 * Update gendwarfksyms documentation with required dependencies (Jihan
   LIN)
 
 * Reject invalid LLVM= values to avoid unintentionally falling back to
   system toolchain (Thomas Weißschuh)
 
 * Add a script to help run the kernel build process in a container for
   consistent environments and testing (Guillaume Tucker)
 
 * Simplify kallsyms by getting rid of the relative base (Ard Biesheuvel)
 
 * Performance and usability improvements to scripts/make_fit.py (Simon
   Glass)
 
 * Minor various clean ups and fixes
 
 Kconfig changes
 ===============
 
 * Move XPM icons to individual files, clearing up GTK deprecation
   warnings (Rostislav Krasny)
 
 * Support
 
     depends on FOO if BAR
 
   as syntactic sugar for
 
     depends on FOO || !BAR' (Nicolas Pitre, Graham Roff)
 
 * Refactor merge_config.sh to use awk over shell/sed/grep, dramatically
   speeding up processing large number of config fragments (Anders
   Roxell, Mikko Rapeli)
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Merge tag 'kbuild-7.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux

Pull Kbuild/Kconfig updates from Nathan Chancellor:
 "Kbuild:

   - Drop '*_probe' pattern from modpost section check allowlist, which
     hid legitimate warnings (Johan Hovold)

   - Disable -Wtype-limits altogether, instead of enabling at W=2
     (Vincent Mailhol)

   - Improve UAPI testing to skip testing headers that require a libc
     when CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK is not set, opening up testing of headers
     with no libc dependencies to more environments (Thomas Weißschuh)

   - Update gendwarfksyms documentation with required dependencies
     (Jihan LIN)

   - Reject invalid LLVM= values to avoid unintentionally falling back
     to system toolchain (Thomas Weißschuh)

   - Add a script to help run the kernel build process in a container
     for consistent environments and testing (Guillaume Tucker)

   - Simplify kallsyms by getting rid of the relative base (Ard
     Biesheuvel)

   - Performance and usability improvements to scripts/make_fit.py
     (Simon Glass)

   - Minor various clean ups and fixes

  Kconfig:

   - Move XPM icons to individual files, clearing up GTK deprecation
     warnings (Rostislav Krasny)

   - Support

        depends on FOO if BAR

     as syntactic sugar for

        depends on FOO || !BAR

     (Nicolas Pitre, Graham Roff)

   - Refactor merge_config.sh to use awk over shell/sed/grep,
     dramatically speeding up processing large number of config
     fragments (Anders Roxell, Mikko Rapeli)"

* tag 'kbuild-7.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (39 commits)
  kbuild: remove dependency of run-command on config
  scripts/make_fit: Compress dtbs in parallel
  scripts/make_fit: Support a few more parallel compressors
  kbuild: Support a FIT_EXTRA_ARGS environment variable
  scripts/make_fit: Move dtb processing into a function
  scripts/make_fit: Support an initial ramdisk
  scripts/make_fit: Speed up operation
  rust: kconfig: Don't require RUST_IS_AVAILABLE for rustc-option
  MAINTAINERS: Add scripts/install.sh into Kbuild entry
  modpost: Amend ppc64 save/restfpr symnames for -Os build
  MIPS: tools: relocs: Ship a definition of R_MIPS_PC32
  streamline_config.pl: remove superfluous exclamation mark
  kbuild: dummy-tools: Add python3
  scripts: kconfig: merge_config.sh: warn on duplicate input files
  scripts: kconfig: merge_config.sh: use awk in checks too
  scripts: kconfig: merge_config.sh: refactor from shell/sed/grep to awk
  kallsyms: Get rid of kallsyms relative base
  mips: Add support for PC32 relocations in vmlinux
  Documentation: dev-tools: add container.rst page
  scripts: add tool to run containerized builds
  ...
 2026-02-11 13:40:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0923fd0419 Locking updates for v6.20: 
Lock debugging:
 
  - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context
    checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context
    analysis features. (Marco Elver)
 
    We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
    removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context
    tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which
    are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of
    false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to
    over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking
    bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse:
    I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the
    rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is
    rather high and there appears to be no active policy in
    place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the
    annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
 
    Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive
    in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has
    a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by
    subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant
    kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it).
    Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other
    compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no
    warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline
    on clang-22+ builds. (Which are still limited in distribution,
    admittedly.)
 
    Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
    zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more
    subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking
    can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y
    (default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
 
    ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
      if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
      relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
 
 Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
 
   - Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
     AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
 
   - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
 
   - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
 
   - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
 
   - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
     helper LTO
 
   - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional
     function calls.
 
 WW mutexes:
 
   - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz)
 
 Misc fixes and cleanups:
 
   - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
     (Arnd Bergmann)
 
   - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
 
   - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
 
   - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
     (Tamir Duberstein)
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lock debugging:

   - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
     using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
     (Marco Elver)

     We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
     removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
     Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
     positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
     context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
     side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
     analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
     the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
     maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
     active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
     the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.

     Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
     trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
     model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
     results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
     our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
     default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
     that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
     zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
     in distribution, admittedly)

     Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
     zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
     and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
     for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
     disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.

     ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
       if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
       relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )

  Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)

    - Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
      AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>

    - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation

    - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce

    - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be

    - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
      helper LTO

    - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
      calls

  WW mutexes:

    - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
      Stultz)

  Misc fixes and cleanups:

    - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
      Bergmann)

    - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)

    - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)

    - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
      Duberstein)"

* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
  locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
  rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
  compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
  tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
  crypto: Use scoped init guard
  kcov: Use scoped init guard
  compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
  cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
  seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
  tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
  rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
  rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
  rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  ...
 2026-02-10 12:28:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
72c395024d A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is still a 
fair amount going on, including:
 
 - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation
 
 - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for patch
   submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption by
   generative tools.
 
 - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to tools/docs.  For
   now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink behind to avoid breaking
   scripts.
 
 - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of documentation in
   Python code, better support for documenting variables, and lots of
   improvements and fixes.
 
 - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example -- to
   the online pages in the HTML build.
 
 ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such.
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Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is
  still a fair amount going on, including:

   - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation

   - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for
     patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption
     by generative tools

   - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to
     tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink
     behind to avoid breaking scripts

   - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of
     documentation in Python code, better support for documenting
     variables, and lots of improvements and fixes

   - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example --
     to the online pages in the HTML build

  ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such"

* tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits)
  doc: development-process: add notice on testing
  tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message
  docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q
  docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools
  docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree'
  docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation
  docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst
  docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete
  docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers
  Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
  docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent
  docs: add parse_features module documentation
  docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements
  docs: add jobserver module documentation
  docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value
  docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8
  docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot
  docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: add kabi modules documentation
  ...
 2026-02-09 20:53:18 -08:00
Joe Perches
931d5c36c7 checkpatch: add an invalid patch separator test 
Some versions of tools that apply patches incorrectly allow lines that
start with 3 dashes and have additional content on the same line.

Checkpatch will now emit an ERROR on these lines and optionally convert
those lines from dashes to equals with --fix.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6ec1ed08328340db42655287afd5fa4067316b11.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stehen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 2026-01-31 16:16:03 -08:00
Marco Elver
d084a73714 compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards 
Add scoped init guard definitions for common synchronization primitives
supported by context analysis.

The scoped init guards treat the context as active within initialization
scope of the underlying context lock, given initialization implies
exclusive access to the underlying object. This allows initialization of
guarded members without disabling context analysis, while documenting
initialization from subsequent usage.

The documentation is updated with the new recommendation. Where scoped
init guards are not provided or cannot be implemented (ww_mutex omitted
for lack of multi-arg guard initializers), the alternative is to just
disable context analysis where guarded members are initialized.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251212095943.GM3911114@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119094029.1344361-3-elver@google.com
 2026-01-28 20:45:24 +01:00
Jani Nikula
a592a36e49 Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate 
The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the
generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The
other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't.

For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst,
but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a
".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html
builds.

This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to
all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the
root document.

Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and
include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an
ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py.

For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this
approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
[jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com>
 2026-01-23 11:59:34 -07:00
Guillaume Tucker
6eac13c876
Documentation: dev-tools: add container.rst page 
Add a dev-tools/container.rst documentation page for the
scripts/container tool.  This covers the basic usage with additional
information about environment variables and user IDs.  It also
includes a number of practical examples with a reference to the
experimental kernel.org toolchain images.

Update MAINTAINERS accordingly with a reference to the added file.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
Reviewed-by: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/af886533cc5cbdd6ef1d909793b79a1ad42c74ca.1769090419.git.gtucker@gtucker.io
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
 2026-01-22 15:33:27 -07:00
Ryota Sakamoto
db0c35ca36 kunit: add bash completion 
Currently, kunit.py has many subcommands and options, making it difficult
to remember them without checking the help message.

Add --list-cmds and --list-opts to kunit.py to get available commands and
options, use those outputs in kunit-completion.sh to show completion.

This implementation is similar to perf and tools/perf/perf-completion.sh.

Example output:
  $ source tools/testing/kunit/kunit-completion.sh
  $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py [TAB][TAB]
  build   config  exec    parse   run
  $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --k[TAB][TAB]
  --kconfig_add  --kernel_args  --kunitconfig

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260117-kunit-completion-v2-1-cabd127d0801@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryota Sakamoto <sakamo.ryota@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
 2026-01-20 11:17:52 -07:00
Marco Elver
e4588c25c9 compiler-context-analysis: Remove __cond_lock() function-like helper 
As discussed in [1], removing __cond_lock() will improve the readability
of trylock code. Now that Sparse context tracking support has been
removed, we can also remove __cond_lock().

Change existing APIs to either drop __cond_lock() completely, or make
use of the __cond_acquires() function attribute instead.

In particular, spinlock and rwlock implementations required switching
over to inline helpers rather than statement-expressions for their
trylock_* variants.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250207082832.GU7145@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [1]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-25-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:33 +01:00
Marco Elver
5b63d0ae94 compiler-context-analysis: Remove Sparse support 
Remove Sparse support as discussed at [1].

The kernel codebase is still scattered with numerous places that try to
appease Sparse's context tracking ("annotation for sparse", "fake out
sparse", "work around sparse", etc.). Eventually, as more subsystems
enable Clang's context analysis, these places will show up and need
adjustment or removal of the workarounds altogether.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250207083335.GW7145@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z6XTKTo_LMj9KmbY@elver.google.com/ [2]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-24-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:33 +01:00
Marco Elver
47907461e4 locking/ww_mutex: Support Clang's context analysis 
Add support for Clang's context analysis for ww_mutex.

The programming model for ww_mutex is subtly more complex than other
locking primitives when using ww_acquire_ctx. Encoding the respective
pre-conditions for ww_mutex lock/unlock based on ww_acquire_ctx state
using Clang's context analysis makes incorrect use of the API harder.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-21-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:32 +01:00
Marco Elver
d3febf16de locking/local_lock: Support Clang's context analysis 
Add support for Clang's context analysis for local_lock_t and
local_trylock_t.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-20-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:31 +01:00
Marco Elver
e4fd3be884 locking/rwsem: Support Clang's context analysis 
Add support for Clang's context analysis for rw_semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-18-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:31 +01:00
Marco Elver
f0b7ce22d7 srcu: Support Clang's context analysis 
Add support for Clang's context analysis for SRCU.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-16-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:30 +01:00
Marco Elver
fe00f6e846 rcu: Support Clang's context analysis 
Improve the existing annotations to properly support Clang's context
analysis.

The old annotations distinguished between RCU, RCU_BH, and RCU_SCHED;
however, to more easily be able to express that "hold the RCU read lock"
without caring if the normal, _bh(), or _sched() variant was used we'd
have to remove the distinction of the latter variants: change the _bh()
and _sched() variants to also acquire "RCU".

When (and if) we introduce context locks to denote more generally that
"IRQ", "BH", "PREEMPT" contexts are disabled, it would make sense to
acquire these instead of RCU_BH and RCU_SCHED respectively.

The above change also simplified introducing __guarded_by support, where
only the "RCU" context lock needs to be held: introduce __rcu_guarded,
where Clang's context analysis warns if a pointer is dereferenced
without any of the RCU locks held, or updated without the appropriate
helpers.

The primitives rcu_assign_pointer() and friends are wrapped with
context_unsafe(), which enforces using them to update RCU-protected
pointers marked with __rcu_guarded.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-15-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:30 +01:00
Marco Elver
eb7d96a13b bit_spinlock: Support Clang's context analysis 
The annotations for bit_spinlock.h have simply been using "bitlock" as
the token. For Sparse, that was likely sufficient in most cases. But
Clang's context analysis is more precise, and we need to ensure we
can distinguish different bitlocks.

To do so, add a token context, and a macro __bitlock(bitnum, addr)
that is used to construct unique per-bitlock tokens.

Add the appropriate test.

<linux/list_bl.h> is implicitly included through other includes, and
requires 2 annotations to indicate that acquisition (without release)
and release (without prior acquisition) of its bitlock is intended.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-14-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:30 +01:00
Marco Elver
8f8a55f49c locking/seqlock: Support Clang's context analysis 
Add support for Clang's context analysis for seqlock_t.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-12-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:29 +01:00
Marco Elver
370f0a345a locking/mutex: Support Clang's context analysis 
Add support for Clang's context analysis for mutex.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-11-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:29 +01:00
Marco Elver
f16a802d40 locking/rwlock, spinlock: Support Clang's context analysis 
Add support for Clang's context analysis for raw_spinlock_t,
spinlock_t, and rwlock. This wholesale conversion is required because
all three of them are interdependent.

To avoid warnings in constructors, the initialization functions mark a
lock as acquired when initialized before guarded variables.

The test verifies that common patterns do not generate false positives.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-9-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:28 +01:00
Marco Elver
8f32441d7a Documentation: Add documentation for Compiler-Based Context Analysis 
Adds documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/context-analysis.rst, and
adds it to the index.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-5-elver@google.com
 2026-01-05 16:43:27 +01:00
Addison English
faa395bcda docs: fix typo in clang-format documentation 
The clang-format documentation contains a minor spelling issue where
"intended" is used instead of "indented" when describing deeply nested
code. This patch corrects the typo to improve the clarity and consistency.

Signed-off-by: Addison English <addison.englishw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251208065136.9092-1-addison.englishw@gmail.com>
 2025-12-22 15:18:57 -07:00
Andy Shevchenko
197bbebd25 docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h 
For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split
to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach
which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few
required updates to align with that work. Do it here.

Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing
to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
 2025-12-22 14:59:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9d9c1cfec0 There are no significant series in this small merge. Please see the 
individual changelogs for details.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "There are no significant series in this small merge. Please see the
  individual changelogs for details"

[ Editor's note: it's mainly ocfs2 and a couple of random fixes ]

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
  mm: memfd_luo: add CONFIG_SHMEM dependency
  mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n
  ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_merge_rec_left()
  ocfs2: invalidate inode if i_mode is zero after block read
  ocfs2: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
  ocfs2: convert remaining read-only checks to ocfs2_emergency_state
  ocfs2: add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr
  checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  args: fix documentation to reflect the correct numbers
  ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain
  liveupdate: luo_core: fix redundant bound check in luo_ioctl()
  ocfs2: validate inline xattr size and entry count in ocfs2_xattr_ibody_list
  fs/fat: remove unnecessary wrapper fat_max_cache()
  ocfs2: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy
  ocfs2: check tl_used after reading it from trancate log inode
  liveupdate: luo_file: don't use invalid list iterator
 2025-12-13 20:55:12 +12:00
Ally Heev
01da5216c5 checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check 
Uinitialized pointers with __free attribute can cause undefined behavior
as the memory randomly assigned to the pointer is freed automatically when
the pointer goes out of scope.  add check in checkpatch to detect such
issues.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251203-aheev-checkpatch-uninitialized-free-v7-1-841e3b31d8f3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ally Heev <allyheev@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8a4c0b43-cf63-400d-b33d-d9c447b7e0b9@suswa.mountain/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/58fd478f408a34b578ee8d949c5c4b4da4d4f41d.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Menon, Nishanth <nm@ti.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 2025-12-10 16:07:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
509d3f4584 Significant patch series in this pull request: 
- The 6 patch series "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential
   issue" from Andy Shevchenko fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in
   ib/sys_info.c.
 
 - The 9 patch series "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" from
   David Laight enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and
   beefs up the test module for these library functions.
 
 - The 2 patch series "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available
   to GDB" from Ilya Leoshkevich makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line
   numbers available to the GDB debugger.
 
 - The 4 patch series "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system
   info on demand" from Feng Tang adds a sysctl which can be used to cause
   additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire.
 
 - The 6 patch series "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate
   users" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/
   and migrates several users away from their private implementations.
 
 - The 2 patch series "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" from Eric
   Dumazet makes TCP a little faster.
 
 - The 9 patch series "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" from
   Pasha Tatashin reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for
   Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients.
 
 - The 13 patch series "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic
   updates" from Pasha Tatashin increases the flexibility of KEXEC
   Handover.  Also preparation for LUO.
 
 - The 18 patch series "Live Update Orchestrator" from Pasha Tatashin is
   a major new feature targeted at cloud environments.  Quoting the [0/N]:
 
     This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem
     designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot.
     This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors
     to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines.  LUO
     achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as
     memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
 
     As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file
     descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or
     any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec
     reboot.
 
   Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
   testing work.
 
 - The 3 patch series "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" from
   Sourabh Jain moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/
   to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
   hopefully be removed one day.
 
 - The 2 patch series "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" from Mike
   Rapoport fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of
   vmalloc() regions.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko)
   fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c

 - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight)
   enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up
   the test module for these library functions

 - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich)
   makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB
   debugger

 - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang)
   adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when
   the hung-task and lockup detectors fire

 - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
   adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several
   users away from their private implementations

 - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet)
   makes TCP a little faster

 - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin)
   reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update
   Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients

 - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin)
   increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO

 - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin)
   is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the
   cover letter:

      This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel
      subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a
      kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud
      environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal
      downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by
      preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory,
      devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.

      As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving
      memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such
      as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in
      RAM across the kexec reboot.

   Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
   testing work.

 - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain)
   moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to
   /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
   hopefully be removed one day

 - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport)
   fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc()
   regions

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits)
  calibrate: update header inclusion
  Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()"
  vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors
  kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
  kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
  MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag
  init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup
  KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
  Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface
  Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
  kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec
  test_kho: always print restore status
  kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
  selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions
  selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO
  selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests
  docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO
  mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
  liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state
  mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h
  ...
 2025-12-06 14:01:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b6d993310a linux_kselftest-kunit-6.19-rc1 
Makes filter parameters configurable via Kconfig.
 Adds description of kunit.enable parameter documentation.
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Merge tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest

Pull kunit updates from Shuah Khan:

 - Make filter parameters configurable via Kconfig

 - Add description of kunit.enable parameter to documentation

* tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  kunit: Make filter parameters configurable via Kconfig
  Documentation: kunit: add description of kunit.enable parameter
 2025-12-03 15:50:11 -08:00
Onur Özkan
55b453ed53 checkpatch: document new check PLACEHOLDER_USE 
Adds documentation for the new check PLACEHOLDER_USE in checkpatch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250917173725.22547-3-work@onurozkan.dev
Signed-off-by: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 2025-11-11 16:48:29 -08:00
Yuya Ishikawa
9de5f847ef Documentation: kunit: add description of kunit.enable parameter 
The current KUnit documentation does not mention the kunit.enable
kernel parameter, making it unclear how to troubleshoot cases where
KUnit tests do not run as expected.
Add a note explaining kunit.enable parmaeter. Disabling this parameter
prevents all KUnit tests from running even if CONFIG_KUNIT is enabled.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251021030605.41610-1-ishikawa.yuy-00@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Yuya Ishikawa <ishikawa.yuy-00@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
 2025-10-27 11:16:09 -06:00
Brian Norris
0aa760051f docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style 
Networking no longer has their own comment style, and checkpatch no
longer checks for this.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org>
 2025-10-21 14:36:33 -06:00
Brian Norris
7159cf9fad docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style 
Ironically, the block style comments in the checkpatch documentation are
not aligned properly. Correct that.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-1-briannorris@chromium.org>
 2025-10-21 14:36:33 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
ee2fe81cdc It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: 
- Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal
   include" mode.
 
 - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
   kernel-doc technical debt.  The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
   converted to Python and updated for current systems.
 
 - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML
   redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the
   rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.
 
 - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol.
 
 - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.
 
 ...and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all
  over:

   - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the
     "literal include" mode.

   - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
     kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
     converted to Python and updated for current systems.

   - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate
     HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site
     hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.

   - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink
     protocol.

   - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.

  ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes,
  etc"

* tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
  Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
  docs: remove cdomain.py
  Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do"
  docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive
  Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order
  docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses".
  Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives
  Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload
  Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory
  docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
  docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks
  docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
  docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef()
  ...
 2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e406d57be7 Patch series in this pull request: 
- The 3 patch series "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from
   Christophe Jaillet completes the removal of this legacy IDR API.
 
 - The 9 patch series "panic: introduce panic status function family"
   from Jinchao Wang provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and
   its various helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the
   place.
 
 - The 5 patch series "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard
   interaction support" from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability
   changes to the delaytop monitoring tool.
 
 - The 3 patch series "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from
   Evangelos Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the
   combination of EFI and KHO.
 
 - The 2 patch series "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity
   check" from Phillip Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about
   SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE.  A mere 150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen
   microbenchmark.
 
 - Plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...
 2025-10-02 18:44:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8804d970fa Summary of significant series in this pull request: 
- The 3 patch series "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from
   Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap
   cluster allocation.
 
 - The 4 patch series "support large align and nid in Rust allocators"
   from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large
   alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from
   Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets
   for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters.
 
 - The 3 patch series "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock"
   from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache
   checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David
   Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code.
 
 - The 5 patch series "add persistent huge zero folio support" from
   Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero.
 
 - The 3 patch series "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a
   few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature.
 
 - The 10 patch series "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all
   arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap.  To
   end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with
   64-bit's needs.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li
   cleans up some swap code.
 
 - The 7 patch series "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip
   unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests
   code.
 
 - The 7 patch series "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide
   THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes
   to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other
   workloads on the system".
 
   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations.
 
 - The 11 patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox
   gets us started on the memdesc project.  Please see
   https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
   https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc.
 
 - The 3 patch series "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from
   Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path.
 
 - The 5 patch series "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi
   Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang
   adds some rmap selftests.
 
 - The 3 patch series "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig
   removes that function and converts its two remaining callers.
 
 - The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain
   fixes some UFFD selftests issues.
 
 - The 3 patch series "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris
   Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages".  Using these
   permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather
   than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some
   pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements
   to the page allocator code.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae
   Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem.
 
 - The 4 patch series "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for
   vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and
   deduplication under tools/testing/.
 
 - The 2 patch series "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from
   Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in
   tools/testing/radix-tree.c.
 
 - The 2 patch series "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove
   arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN
   arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral
   implementation.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes
   zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc).
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from
   Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code.
 
 - The 37 patch series "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand
   makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites,
   eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function.
 
 - The 2 patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from
   Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that
   architecture's memory tagging feature.  It is felt that a read-only mode
   KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation"
   from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code.
 
 - The 12 patch series "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer
   parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API
   functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments.  This
   was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they
   attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy.
 
 - The 7 patch series "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola
   fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use
   free_pages() vs __free_pages().
 
 - The 3 patch series "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice
   Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust.  Required by nouveau
   and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver.
 
 - The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test:
   split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and
   some cleanups to the thp selftesting code.
 
 - The 14 patch series "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache
   (phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the
   path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation
   and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space
   improvements.  This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit
   in some situations.
 
 - The 3 patch series "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes
   the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little.
 
 - The 3 patch series "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from
   Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from
   Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new
   memory allocation profiling feature.
 
 - The 3 patch series "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few
   cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and
   DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in
   furtherance of supporting arm highmem.
 
 - The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix
   warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code
   and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code.
 
 - The 10 patch series "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM
   Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements
   in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim
   threads so they can release resources.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18"
   from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON.
 
 - The 7 patch series "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization
   check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and
   maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and
   non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to
   userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information.
 
 - The 2 patch series "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse"
   from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of
   anon VMAs.  It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against
   an anon vma.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in
   compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards
   removal of file_operations.mmap().  This patchset concentrates upon
   clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems.
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from
   Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking
   of large folios.  /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters
   during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats
   inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these
   counters.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei
   Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's
   mm_slot handling.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
Akira Yokosawa
ab588b78cd docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension 
Commit 1e9ddbb2cd ("docs: Pull LKMM documentation into dev-tools book")
failed to add a file extension in lkmm/docs/herd-representation.rst for
referencing its plane-text counterpart.

Fix it.

Fixes: 1e9ddbb2cd ("docs: Pull LKMM documentation into dev-tools book")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202509192138.fx3H6NzG-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <c3b9de17-7cd8-4968-9872-cbe2607a7143@gmail.com>
 2025-09-21 16:22:09 -06:00
Yeoreum Yun
31d8edb535 kasan/hw-tags: introduce kasan.write_only option 
Patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags", v8.

Hardware tag based KASAN is implemented using the Memory Tagging Extension
(MTE) feature.

MTE is built on top of the ARMv8.0 virtual address tagging TBI (Top Byte
Ignore) feature and allows software to access a 4-bit allocation tag for
each 16-byte granule in the physical address space.  A logical tag is
derived from bits 59-56 of the virtual address used for the memory access.
A CPU with MTE enabled will compare the logical tag against the
allocation tag and potentially raise an tag check fault on mismatch,
subject to system registers configuration.

Since ARMv8.9, FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY can be used to restrict raise of tag
check fault on store operation only.

Using this feature (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY), introduce KASAN write-only mode
which restricts KASAN check write (store) operation only.  This mode omits
KASAN check for read (fetch/load) operation.  Therefore, it might be used
not only debugging purpose but also in normal environment.


This patch (of 2):

Since Armv8.9, FEATURE_MTE_STORE_ONLY feature is introduced to restrict
raise of tag check fault on store operation only.  Introduce KASAN write
only mode based on this feature.

KASAN write only mode restricts KASAN checks operation for write only and
omits the checks for fetch/read operations when accessing memory.  So it
might be used not only debugging enviroment but also normal enviroment to
check memory safty.

This features can be controlled with "kasan.write_only" arguments.  When
"kasan.write_only=on", KASAN checks write operation only otherwise KASAN
checks all operations.

This changes the MTE_STORE_ONLY feature as BOOT_CPU_FEATURE like
ARM64_MTE_ASYMM so that makes it initialise in kasan_init_hw_tags() with
other function together.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-2-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Hardevsinh Palaniya <hardevsinh.palaniya@siliconsignals.io>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: levi.yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@amd.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 2025-09-21 14:22:10 -07:00
Akira Yokosawa
1e9ddbb2cd docs: Pull LKMM documentation into dev-tools book 
Currently, LKMM docs are not included in any of kernel documentation
books.

Commit e40573a43d ("docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt
into the core-api book") covered plain-text docs under Documentation/
by using the "include::" directive along with the ":literal:" option.

As LKMM docs are not under Documentation/, the same approach would not
work due to the directive's restriction.

As a matter of fact, kernel documentation has an extended directive
by the name of "kernel-include::", which loosens such restriction and
accepts any files under the kernel source tree.

Rather than moving LKMM docs around, use the latter and pull them into
the dev-tools book next to KCSAN.

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <7ce84a93-5cbc-420e-894a-06a0372c52ab@gmail.com>
 2025-09-16 10:12:02 -06:00
Soham Bagchi
1455b6ac21 kcov: load acquire coverage count in user-space code 
Update the KCOV documentation to use a load-acquire operation for the
first element of the shared memory buffer between kernel-space and
user-space.

The load-acquire pairs with the write memory barrier used in
kcov_move_area().

[soham.bagchi@utah.edu: v2]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250803180558.2967962-1-soham.bagchi@utah.edu
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728184318.1839137-2-soham.bagchi@utah.edu
Signed-off-by: Soham Bagchi <soham.bagchi@utah.edu>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 2025-09-13 17:32:44 -07:00
Harshit Mogalapalli
3f65aa8ede Documentation: dev-tools: Fix a typo in autofdo documentation 
Use "cat /proc/cpuinfo" instead of "cat proc/cpuinfo".

Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250831151118.1274826-1-harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com
 2025-09-03 15:44:14 -06:00
Marie Zhussupova
93cf798e76 Documentation: kunit: Document new parameterized test features 
This patch updates the KUnit docs to show how to use the new
parameterized test context to share resources between parameter runs.
It documents and show examples of different ways the test user can
pass parameter arrays to a parameterized test. Finally, it specifies the
parameterized testing terminology.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250826091341.1427123-8-davidgow@google.com
Reviewed-by: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marie Zhussupova <marievic@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
 2025-08-26 23:36:03 -06:00
Bagas Sanjaya
fea71fe1f0 Documentation: ktap: Separate first bullet list items 
The first bullet list items are shown in htmldocs output as combined
with previous paragraph due to missing blank line separator. Add it.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814012046.21235-3-bagasdotme@gmail.com
 2025-08-18 10:28:44 -06:00